New Book: Ecoregionalism

[Jon Marco CHURCH]

1st Edition
Ecoregionalism Analyzing Regional Environmental Agreements and Processes
By
Jon Marco Church
First Published 2020
ISBN 9780415711678
Published May 20, 2020 by Routledge
272 Pages - 20 B/W Illustrations
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Book Description
		This book provides a comprehensive understanding of environmental regionalism at the international level, analyzing the concept and identifying recurring patterns from six in-depth case studies.
		While ecoregions or environmental regions are defined on ecological boundaries rather than administrative criteria, ecoregionalism is the idea that regional dynamics should cluster around ecoregions, while ecoregionalization is the tendency of regional dynamics to cluster around ecoregions. Focusing on the international level, this book presents six cases of ecoregional processes from around the world and the regional environmental agreements: two are terrestrial, the Alps and the Andes; two are marine, the Mediterranean Sea and the Baltic Sea; two are related to freshwater ecosystems: the Amu Darya in Central Asia and the Great Lakes in North America. The book analyzes both ecoregional processes focused on the environment, as well as intersectoral ecoregional processes.
The case studies are analyzed based on the ecoregional governance framework, developed by the author for this book. Despite the diversity of context, the similarity of the governance system of the six cases is striking. Several recurring patterns have been identified, which may also extend to the subnational level. They are not design principles, but may be taken into consideration for the design or redesign of current and future regional environmental agreements and processes.
This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental politics, natural resource management, spatial planning and international relations.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Identifying ecoregions  1. The environmental component  2. The regional component  Part 2: Analyzing ecoregional governance  3. Epistemic perspectives: science and knowledge  4. Sociological approaches: norms and institutions  5. Diagnostic frameworks: analyzing sustainability  Part 3: Comparing ecoregional agreements and processes  6. The ecoregional governance framework  7. Case studies of ecoregional governance
Author
Biography
	Jon Marco Church is Associate Professor the Governance of Sustainable Development at the Université de Reims, France, and Guest Lecturer at Sciences Po and at the Università IUAV di Venezia, Italy. He was previously a Doctoral Fellow at Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, USA.